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The Highs and Lows of Entrepreneurship during Business School

Posted on October 22, 2020November 6, 2020 by Stephen Fusi

When I came into my first year at Fuqua, second year of my dual-degree overall, I had decided it was time to embrace something different. Fresh off an internship at WeWork, I had entrepreneurial inspiration and an idea for applying techniques I learned during my internship to a new context. I wanted to develop a […]

Addressing supply chain inequities with an entrepreneurial mindset

Posted on March 9, 2020April 7, 2020 by Stephen Fusi

Rachel Lichte’s vision for transforming diamond mining practices came from, of all things, bananas. On a backpacking trip through Costa Rica at 18 years old, Rachel says she “saw people working so hard on banana plantations but staying so poor.” Later on, after connecting how diamond miners, like banana farmers, remain poor despite their valuable […]